Ulpha

This rugged landscape

Rests gently upon my eye,

Dry stone walls

Bisecting bracken green

or bracken brown

Seasons.

Coolness of slate grey and

rich warmness of iron ore

Cutting through where man hued

and toiled.

Fells rising either side

Herdwicks silhouetted on mountain tops

Rowans standing rock-fast

Defiant to the shaping blast of

Wind changing name changing

Mountain Ash.